Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1887-04-14
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Attention Called 90 Several Common
Rernas OF EmpFudence.

K0rfaa OF kmpfudemccs
Speaking of sudden changes Of temper
allure Tho Medical Pres says. Expert
ence leads M TO anticipate certain definite
results in the production OF disease from
marked and sudden variations In tenn
perAtura. TIA north wind sends down
the Thermometer from seventy degrees 30
forty degrees In the course OF day il
would not be unreasonable TO anticipate
an increase In the number Of cases of
disease OF the respiratory organs, rheu-
matism, 40. The moro abrupt the fall
the greater will be the effect. Yet with
q knowledge to theme facts our civilized
existence Is one continual series Of expo
sure 10 such changes-changes greater in
extent and more udden than any which
occur from natural causes. Instead OF n
day, the result of leaving warm room
tor the streets may be TO affront differ
ence in temperature OF forty degrees or
more, and even within the limits OF the
same house II is possible 10 pass, meta
phonoally speaking, from Greenland's 10y
mountains to India's coral strand. OF
course IL will be urged that certain pre-
cautions are taken with the view Of olivia
ting tho risks attending such abrupt
changes Of temperature, but II will bt
found on inquiry that they are as rule
quite illusory. Who dreams Of putting
on an overcoat ON going to the closet OF
fetching any object from another and
unwarmed roomg On leaving the house
IL Ia true, persons possessed of averag,
prudence take the trouble TO put on al
extra coat or shawl. By so doing they dc
protect the outside of the body, but they
leave unprotected the naked surface O
the lungs, q delicate and easily irritatet
organ, very inadequately provided will
means Of self-defenoe. Even naturei
resources, whereby the equilibrium o
hent is maintained, are apt TO break dow
when one inspiration In at seventy degree
and the next at thirty degrees. Nature
~ q rule, does not allow Of an abrupt re
veraing OF the gear; her movements ar
pendulum like, and adjust themselves
accurately il may be, but slowly, TO tn
vioissitudeB of life. In natural state o
existence, which may be assumed to be
savage one, such changes are impossible
or at least improbable, and hence, as W
advance in civilization, SO the bad result
of an artificial condition of existence be
come apparent. Another danger :
which our habits Of living expose us
that which accrues from local disparity @
temperature, when, for instance, TO us
the same smile, our bodies are in Indi
and our feet and legs in Greenland. Her
the mechanism is somewhat different, bu
the result Is at least as detrimental. Be
ginning at the infianed eye which
caught by looking through keyholes, W
get to the neuralgia affections which ma
attack any part Of the body exposed to tn
action of a draught. Although the caus
may be local, the effect is by no mean
necessarily SO; indeed, in a large pre-
portion Of cases the result of such looa
lied exposure is TO give rise to conatitr
tional ailments, il may DO, of the mos
serious character. The bad effects c
rapid changes Of temperature are by n
means confined to transition from hes
to cold. Very often, indeed, the convers
change, from cold to heat, is the starting
point Of series Of complaints whic
cold alone had failed to induce. This
matter Of common experience in armie
on the march in winter. Entrance into
warm room from an outside temperatuI
below freezing point is not uncommon
followed by sensation of suifocatio
and malaise, which takes some little tim
to wear oil. Much can be done by cal
and attention to ward of part Of Il
harm which might otherwise accrue fro
the causes alluded TO. Inside the houi
the warmth should be more equally di
tributed, 80 as 10 avoid undue change
temperature on traversing corridors
passages; this involves structural ariang
ments which are not within the reach
everybody, but excellent results follc
even the employment OF stove in I
hall. Outside, not only should addition
clothing be resorted to, but no air shou
be permitted to reach the lungs exec
after having been warmed by pa
ing through the nose--a little co
trivance by which nature remediI
within certain limits, alterations in t
temperature of the respired air. F
this reason singing in the streets on 90
nights, and even talking, is undesirabl
The most robust are amenable to these
fluences, to some, if not TO the Ban
extent as the more delicate, and cnnn
brave them with impunity In cite
especially where fog aud cold 60 togeth,
the maxim should be to keep the mou
shut and the ears OMEN